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Research question <ul><li>simple enough to be memorable </li></ul><ul><li>engaging enough to be used spontaneously </li></ul><ul><li>appropriate to diverse audiences </li></ul><ul><li>applicable to open-ended exhibits on any topic </li></ul><ul><li>learnable over a 20-30 minute experience </li></ul>Is it possible to explicitly teach visitors a useful set of inquiry skills?

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What would such skills be? Experimentation P ropose A ction I nterpret R esults

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Pedagogy: how to teach the skills? <ul><li>“ Juicy Question” game </li></ul><ul><li>“ Hands off” game </li></ul><ul><li> </li></ul><ul><li>1) Visitors learn to do PA’s: </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Anyone can say “Hands off! I have a plan” </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>2) Visitors learn to do IR’s: </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Anyone can say “Hands off! I made a discovery” </li></ul></ul></ul>

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Depth of inquiry: Linked PAs <ul><li>Score = largest number of PAs linked by a common theme </li></ul><ul><li>We didn’t teach them to do this </li></ul>Propose Action Experiment Propose Action Experiment